“I can’t tell you how excited I am to be here, making this announcement with Gustavo and Antonio,” said Shank. “We’ve been working for a long time to be back to a two-car effort and while there were a lot of good options for us, the biggest thing was to know that we’d be coming to each race with an opportunity to be successful. I really believe that with these two drivers, we’ve got the tools we need to be competitive, and hopefully this will be a strong platform for us to build on and prepare for 2014 and beyond.”

Yacaman took third in the 2012 Indy Lights Championship after taking two wins (Detroit, Toronto) and scoring pole position at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. He started the 2012 season with a debut outing in the Rolex 24 At Daytona, joining Michael Shank Racing for an impressive run to the podium in his first-ever appearance in the huge endurance challenge.

Pizzonia raced his way up the European open-wheel ladder to compete in Formula 1 with Williams Grand Prix Engineering and Jaguar F1. The ace has been a regular in the Brazilian Stock Car Championship, a highly competitive category in his home country.

Michael Shank Racing will return to Rolex Series competition next weekend as Grand-Am makes an inaugural visit to the Circuit of the Americas March 1-2 (race on SPEED March 2, 5:30 p.m. EST).